Saturday, November 22, 2014

So I'm quilting along and suddenly notice that I'm having some serious skipped stitch issues. Oh bother. I change the needle, check everything, oil parts, change the needle again and nothing seems to be helping.

I finally check the stitching on a test piece of fabric, and it works fine. I am going through large seams some of the time, but it was skipping other places too. Anyway, I change the brand of thread (from Aurifil to Gutermann, in case you're interested) and everything cleared up right away. (And it is way past my bedtime. But it feels so nice to have the problem worked out.)

What do I do with the Aurifil thread now? It worked on the random fabric, so it might have just been having issues with this quilt. Save it for further quilting with a warning note? Use it for piecing? Trash it?

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

I've worked on several things over the last two weeks, but only have two pictures to show.

1) Braid in braid. I have the first braid done - all 202" of it. Tonight I trimmed it and just started to rebraid it. I'm curious to see how it turns out.

2) I've been quilting the metro lattice. Do you like my "rulers"? I tried doing a quarter inch echo around the pieces, but was way to wiggly. The cardboard is far from perfect, but it is about the right height for the foot and at least keeps me from having terrible lines.

Sunday, November 2, 2014

The only small goal I had in October was to finish a few space robot blocks. Since I technically did that within the first few days, the rest of October was wide open. I loved having freedom to bounce all over the place! Usually I really like to have a goal, but there is something exciting to not having a specific goal too. So here are the things I did, and the things that I didn't do, for October.

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